AC9AMU8C02 Year 7 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

compose using the elements of music and compositional devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning, and notate, document and/or record the music

Elaborations

• 1 writing songs or instrumental music to communicate ideas or opinions about themes or issues, such as their perspectives on local issues relating to sustainable ways of living or relationships such as friendship
• 2 combining and manipulating the elements of music in ways that are characteristic of selected styles, creating and notating, documenting and/or recording a composition, using available digital tools
• 3 using patterns such as harmonic, rhythmic or melodic patterns as the basis for improvisation or composition; for example, creating a composition entirely from loops or recording a series of loops (ostinati/repeating patterns) and then composing/improvising additional melodic lines
• 4 composing music for different purposes, such as repertoire for an ensemble to perform or music for a theatrical, site-specific or media work; for example, a fanfare or other composition that will grab the audience’s attention at the start of an event, ritual or ceremony
• 5 using software to notate, document and/or record compositions in formats that are appropriate to a genre, style or instrument, such as chord charts or percussion notation
• 6 arranging a familiar music piece into a different music style by manipulating the elements of music to convey meaning, and documenting the arrangement in a form that is appropriate, considering the style and the preferences of the musicians who might be performing the arrangement; for example, arranging an instrumental work for choral performance
• 7 developing an arrangement or re-imagining of an existing melody/tune by improvising, using given material such as a melody, riff or chord progression

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